Re: case $var in $list) issue

[#!microsuxx]

id say its a must functionality

i imagine case without such .. u couldnt programmaticly use it at all

m='@(a|b)' m2=c$m ; case ca in $m2) echo ye ; esac
ye

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024, 12:17 #!microsuxx <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 1, 2024, 12:16 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 06:00:49 +0100, #!microsuxx wrote:
>> > shopt -s extglob
>> > m='@(a|b)' ; case b in $m) echo ye ; esac
>> > ye
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>> Huh, interesting indeed.
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>> hobbit:~$ shopt -s extglob
>> hobbit:~$ m='a|b'
>> hobbit:~$ case b in $m) echo ye ; esac
>> hobbit:~$ m='@(a|b)'
>> hobbit:~$ case b in $m) echo ye ; esac
>> ye
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>> I can only speculate that it sometimes re-parses the contents of $m
>> based on the first character.
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